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Frank Warren

Speaker

Los Angeles, California, USA

Creator, The PostSecret Project

Frank Warren is the creator of The PostSecret Project, a website of 700 million views, with its collection of intimately personal and artistic postcards mailed anonymously from individuals worldwide. He is a New York Times bestselling author whose inspiring TED Talk has been viewed over 2.5 million times.

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PostSecret and the Pandemic: Struggles, Successes & Strategies

Frank Warren is the sole founder of the PostSecret Project, a growing collection of over a million artful secrets, mailed anonymously to him on postcards. Known as ‘the most trusted stranger in the world’, Frank’s all new interactive presentation reveals our true feelings about how the pandemic has disrupted our lives, while providing evidence-based tools to aid young people and adults as they navigate through this challenging, but temporary crisis.

Community building, reducing stigma, and asking for help are all discussed in response to the rise in anxiety, loneliness, depression and grief.

67% of young people talk with a friend about mental illness before a parent, teacher or professional. One objective of this presentation is to give students the confidence and knowledge to know how to respond when a friend trusts them with their mental health secret. 

In addition to sharing the most extraordinary secrets and inspiring PostSecret stories, participants will also learn from new pandemic related postcards that Frank has received recently. We are all experiencing the pandemic differently, but we are all going through it together. 

PostSecret Live

“PostSecret Live” is a multimedia event by Frank Warren, founder of PostSecret.com.  Based on his popular TED talk, Frank uncovers our common story from the 1,000,000+ artful secrets that have been mailed to his home on postcards, anonymously. See postcards that were banned from six bestselling PostSecret books. Hear the inspiring and funny stories behind the secrets. Listen to some of Frank’s secrets or share your own.

Audience reviews:

  • Frank's talk was interesting, funny and poignant - bringing light to some very deep subject matter while also entertaining an audience of over 1500 people with diverse interests. I would love to have Frank speak again at future events.

    - Co-producer, DCWEEK, COO, Tech Cocktail
  • One of the biggest, brightest & most influential people on the internet.

    - Forbes
  • Frank Warren and The PostSecret Project brought great energy [and gave] students a chance to check out new secrets and really think about what secrets mean to us all.



    - University of South Carolina
  • Frank Warren brings tears of empathy to the SXSW crowd during his keynote address.

    - CNET

Speaker Biography

“We all carry a secret that would break your heart if you just knew what it was. And if we could remember that, there might be more understanding and peace in the world.” – Frank Warren

Frank Warren is the most trusted stranger in America. He’s creator of the The PostSecret Project, a place where people share their private hopes, desires and fears. A place where the secrets they could not tell their friends and family would be treated with dignity in a non-judgmental way. The result is PostSecret – a collection of intimately personal and artistic postcards mailed anonymously from individuals worldwide, sharing personal secrets.

The PostSecret website has become a phenomenon earning over 700 million views, the world’s largest advertisement-free blog. The popularity of the project and its impact has earned Warren recognition as one of the top five influential people on the internet by Forbes. Warren’s books have become bestsellers including the New York Times bestseller, PostSecret: Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives, and his work has been featured on USA Today, The Today Show, 20/20, CNN, MSNBC, CBC, NPR, George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight. The PostSecret App hit No. 1 on iTunes.

He has delivered keynote addresses around the world at colleges and universities, mental health conferences and major events and was even invited to the White House to share what he has learned about our secret selves. At times hilarious and heartbreaking, the secrets reflect complex issues that many of us struggle with: intimacy, trust, meaning, humor, and desire.

As an advocate for mental health initiatives & suicide prevention, the National Mental Health Association recognized him with a special award. Warren is a volunteer for and actively involved in the organization Hopeline/1-800-SUICIDE.